The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-06
Our Fourth Transcontinental
Railway.
ALT LAKE & LOS ANGELES.
Interest in the Construction
of the Road.

pace. Several heavy capitalists and
energetic, skilful promoters from the
East have been in this city taking coun
sci with our business men and public
officials with reference to this great
project. Yesterday these movements
resulted in the effeclng of an incorpor
alton in this tate and the appointing
of Board of Directors.
The Territory of Utah and'the State
of Nevada are both alive with active
interest in the scheme, and this has re-
suited III the subscription of stock, the
granting of rights of way, and the
voting of handsome subsidies to en-
courage and aid the enterprise. Our
Angeleno friends do not propose to lag
behind in the coed work, but are taking
the project up in the most enthusiastic
| manner, Less could not be expected
from our public men and merchants.
| The new road is
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEASURES
preached among US at any time. Los
Angeles, to be sure, has already three
roads crossing the country, and is, in
this respect, the best furnished entrepot
on the coast. But the Los Angeles &
Salt Lake City Railroad will open up q
rich and wide area of country as a
market for our products and imports;
it will also materially shorten the dis
lance between us and the East. The
line via Salt Lake City is estimated to be
1 100 railroad miles shorter from here
to Chicago than by way of Lathrop and
Sacramento. 1t is much shorter 100,
than the line composed of the Cali
fornia Central, the Atlantic and Pacific,
and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe.
This last statement covers fact not
generally we'll understood; but in old
days before railroads were known in
California, Los Angeles derived fine
trade from this well understood fact.
All the trade of the State, with the
rich mining country to be traversed by
this main line was carried on by way of
this city. Merchandise came down
from San Francisco to San Pedro by
steamer, and was hauled by teams
through this country, by way of Inyo
and adjacent countries into Southwest
ern Nevada and
THROUGH 70 SALT LAKE CITY.
Old-timers will have no difficulty in
recollectiDg the long trains OF prairie
schooners" which arrived here period
ically from the mines and from Nor
mondOm. The proposed new road will
revive this business on new basis and
by new methods more consonant with
the magnitude of the business to be
done
In this connection it is pleasant t.
know that the expense of building the
road will not be by auy means heavy.
Railroad engineers estimate that about
SIS, 600, 600 will construct and equip the
road between the terminal points.
salt Lake City has subscribed sufficient
to carry the line southwark from that
terminus to the borders of Nevada,
an d that State gives right of way and
subsidy of $4,000 per mile all through
her territory. The line will enter our
State at, or not far south of, the south
eastern corner of Inyo County. It will
reach Los Angeles by the San Gabriel,
the Tejunga, the Pacoima, or the Ar
royo Seco Canyons, through the noun
tains north of this city. The whole
line is
BELOW THE SNOW BELT,
and is also out of the way of foods.
There are no heavy grades to overcome,
aud the direction is pretty straight be-
tween the two terminal points. There
will be very heavy traffic both ways
along the line. The country to be
opened as our back country by this
road has q very considerable population
engaged in mining and stock lsising.
They will at once furnish an excellent
market for all the products of our soil,
and they will send US in return beef
and mutton, and countless tons of val
liable ore. The time to Chicago will be
shortened by over day for passenger
trains and two days for freight. The
result of all this will be to greatly en-
liven trade in Los Angeles. We shall
have, smelling works here. and other
Industries connected with the working
Of metals and non-metallic ores.-Los
Angeles Herald.
ANOTHER COUNTY HEARD PROM.
The development of Southern Cali
fornia is the result of improved railroad
facilities. A recognition of this fact
has brought about greater activity in
the building Of new lines during the
past few months than was supposed
possible by the most sanguine. The
line upon which must interest centers
just now is the Salt Lake Midland
routes
Its feasibility seems we'll proven by
the attention which it has attracted
from capitalists. 1t is one of those
schemes which commends itself to the
business judgment as every way prac-
ticable and profitable. The progress
already made in the preliminary work
of securing the cooperation of the
citizens of this city and Los Angeles as
well as that Of Salt Lake, San Francisco
and New York capitalists is gratifying
evidence that the enterprise is an as
sured success. So far as our local in
terests are concerned everything posi-
BILE should be done to secure the great.
est advantages. We have no occasion
to enumerate the benefits that must &C
crue. These are self-evident. 1t is our
business to place ourselves in position
to reap the greatest good. We believe
from present indications that the pro-
portion of capital which may be desired
from Pasadena is of less Importance
than right of way and depo: facilities.
In these particulars the utmost liber-
atty should prevail in order that the
city may secure every convenience.
There should be unanimous and liberal
action in promoting the enterprise from
first to lsst.-Pasadena Daily Union.